1723 in architecture

none 1723 architecture The year 1723 in architecture involved some significant events. Buildings and structures Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1723 Buildings thumb|350px|Mavisbank House, Scotland Mavisbank House in Midlothian is designed by William AdamColvin Howard Howard Colvin 1978 A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 London John Murray 0719533287 registration https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000colv in collaboration with his client, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, and is constructed between 1723 and 1727, the first Palladian villa in Scotland.Dan Cruickshank Dan Cruickshank A Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain & Ireland London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985 0-297-78610-5 226–7 St Mary le Strand in London, designed by James Gibbs, becomes the first wholly new church completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca, Bologna, Italy, is designed by Carlo Francesco Dotti. Awards Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Jean Pinard. Births February 23 – William Chambers, Swedish-born Scottish architect (died 1796) April 28 – John Carr, English architect (died 1807) Deaths February 25 – Christopher Wren, English architect and scientist (born 1632) April 5 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian baroque architect (born 1656) References architecture Category:Architecture by year Category:1720s architecture